Self Reflection

one. The map project and the artist's activism project were the projects that were most engaging to me. They allowed me to express all three ideas of an interesting conceptual, emotional and physical piece. In both, I felt especially motivated to finish the project and create something that made people think deeper about my project.

two. I think I have become more invested in the emotional and conceptual parts of my art much more than before this year. Before this year, I think I made projects solely because they were visually pleasing, and had no real deeper meaning behind them. I think this year, I have become more comfortable in creating something that is conceptually and emotionally interesting in addition to being visually pleasing.

three. My map project and activism project were the most successful as they expressed the three important aspects to me: visual, conceptual and emotional. The most frustrating piece was text in images because it was conceptual difficult. My ideas for what I should do constantly changed, and was hard to stay invested in one of them. It was hard to feel motivated to complete something that I wasn't fully or mostly invested it. I think my teacher allows for a project to be very broad, which can be good and bad. Projects that feel so broad, ex. text in images, make it hard on the student to gain inspiration on something. Additionally, projects that are broad can be good because they allow for more growth as the student isn't confined to one subject. I think starting the year with more focused and less broad projects and gradually making them more and more broad as the year goes on helps the student find what they like to create and how.